frying

Before you learn how to make the perfect over easy fried eggs, you need to know exactly what over easy eggs are. There is certainly a lot of confusion about the different ways of cooking fried eggs. So much so that I created a post explaining all these terms including over easy, over medium, over […]

A frequent cooking mistake is said to be overcrowding the pan. To say that you should never overcrowd a pan when cooking, however, is not an accurate statement. It depends on what type of cooking you are doing. When you are pan-frying, pan-searing, or sauteing, you should not overcrowd the pan. One of the biggest keys to flavor and […]

When using oil for frying, you need to have your oil temperature dialed in pretty well. Without a candy or fat thermometer, this can be challenging. There is, however, a pretty good way to test the temperature of your oil to within around ten degrees Fahrenheit or five degree Celsius, using nothing more than an […]

Growing up in the South, we used to head out to the “Catfish House” quite often. Funny that we would fry our own catfish as often as we would go out for it, but probably what kept us going back was not only the convenience of having someone bring you never-ending baskets of freshly fried […]

Have you heard? You can’t deep fry with olive oil! Its smoking point is too low and it becomes bitter, etc. Funny that people in the Mediterranean regions, who know a lot more than us about olive oil, deep fry more often with olive oil than any other oil. In other words, what you’ve heard […]

If you know your diner lingo, you’ll know that there is a lot of variations on fried egg lingo as well as several types of fried eggs. It seems that some people are having trouble ordering their eggs! If you need a quick cheat-sheet to order eggs now, skip to the bottom of the article. You […]